JUNE is set to be a huge month for Bolton band Jordan Allen with new shows and new music.

The rising indie stars will headline a stage at Isle of Wight Festival, begin a UK tour and, tomorrow, will release their latest single, Synchronised, which frontman Jordan Allen says has the potential to take the band to the next level.

Momentum is building with Radio X and XS Manchester adding the tune to their evening playlist. BBC Introducing Manchester also made it a track of the week.

It’s not bad for a song that’s only a few months old, but Jordan, lead guitarist Danny Quin, bassist Kieran Loughran and drummer Nathan Howard say they knew they had something special from the start.

“Synchronised is bigger and more anthemic than anything we’ve done before,” explained Jordan from Westhoughton.

“It’s a personal one for me too, being about trying to bring all the different parts of my life together.

“I wrote it when I was finishing university in Leeds, still working with the band, but finding it tough to write music away from my usual routine.

“Eventually, while walking home one day, it all came together and I recorded the fundamentals of the song on my phone.”

The lads raced back to the studio and their Manchester producer David Radahd-Jones to lay down the track, together with two other new songs, Without Any Clothes and Half Life Lover.

While the band are determined to keep what has made favourites like Helter Skelter and R.O.S.I.E. so special, they are inevitably gaining new influences.

“People are finding it harder to label us now; we’re getting compared to everyone from Courteeners to The Killers,” said Jordan, who understands how difficult it is for new acts to break through.

“We know we have to keep moving and grafting. It’s hard work; there are many great bands out there who have everything, but still struggle to make it.”

Tonight, the lads open in Cardiff before playing shows in Bristol, Leeds, Nottingham, Liverpool and Sheffield.

They are no strangers to the big stages in

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Manchester, having supported The Sherlocks at sold out shows at Albert Hall and Manchester Academy last year and The Bluetones at The Ritz in May.

Their 2017 EP, Livin’ La Vida Bolton, featured the outstanding bittersweet but optimistic single 110 Ways to Make Things Better, a tribute to Jordan’s father and greatest supporter Kevin who passed away last year after a brain tumour related terminal illness.

In two weeks’ time, they’ll headline the This Feeling new music stage at the Isle of Wight Festival. Bolton’s The Jade Assembly are also on the line-up.

“Moving to the top of the bill on that stage shows how far we’ve come in a year,” said Jordan.

“I remember watching Welsh band Trampolene close the night after we’d played earlier in the day and I couldn’t imagine it would be us there within a year. But we’re ready now, being headliners feels natural to us.”

Synchronised, the new single by Jordan Allen, is released on Friday, June 8.